RUSH: We gotta talk about the Hawkeye straw poll in Ames, Iowa. It was expected that Romney would win. Number two was Huckabee. Now, I mentioned this at the top of the program. It's a big deal for Huckabee, and I don't want to trivialize this -- the winner or whoever, or runner up or any of that, or Iowa. I don't want to trivialize this. It's just so early. It's six months until the first primary, 15 months 'til the actual election. Three of the four leading candidates didn't even participate....

RUSH: We gotta talk about the Hawkeye straw poll in Ames, Iowa. It was expected that Romney would win. Number two was Huckabee. Now, I mentioned this at the top of the program. It's a big deal for Huckabee, and I don't want to trivialize this -- the winner or whoever, or runner up or any of that, or Iowa. I don't want to trivialize this. It's just so early. It's six months until the first primary, 15 months 'til the actual election. Three of the four leading candidates didn't even participate....

RUSH: Ann in Eugene, Oregon, welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Thank you. Good morning, Rush! I love you bunches.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER. For years, you have helped me in my morning nine to 12 grunt work with my three kids listening to you, and you've really helped me, you know, be positive and feel good about my conservative views in South Eugene, Oregon, which is not easy, believe me. But anyway, I'm a golf fanatic.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: I love golf. I'm not playing right now because I don't...

RUSH: We gotta talk about the Hawkeye straw poll in Ames, Iowa. It was expected that Romney would win. Number two was Huckabee. Now, I mentioned this at the top of the program. It's a big deal for Huckabee, and I don't want to trivialize this -- the winner or whoever, or runner up or any of that, or Iowa. I don't want to trivialize this. It's just so early. It's six months until the first primary, 15 months 'til the actual election. Three of the four leading candidates didn't even participate....

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut. Trumpet fanfare. Time for an update, touch on some global warming news here. Paul Shanklin is as Algore. (Playing of Ball of Fire spoof song.) RUSH: There you have it. That's Algore, Ball of Fire, one of our three rotating global warming update themes. An amazing story here from Reuters. This is so full of See, I Told You Sos. I mean, try the headline: "Scientists Try New Ways to Predict Climate Risks." Yes, you heard correctly. "Scientists...

RUSH: This is Carl in Altoona, Pennsylvania. I'm glad you called, sir, and welcome to the program.CALLER: Dittos, Rush. How are you?RUSH: I'm great, sir. Thanks.CALLER: Good. I stand before you corrected. I fell into the trap. Last week when those several Marines who were pilloried for being part of the massacre in Haditha --RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: -- were let go, because, guess what? No evidence, except, of course, the ravings of people who were terrorists. I kept waiting for Congressman...

RUSH: John in Ft. Lauderdale, welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hey, Rush.RUSH: Hey.CALLER: Big fan. I was curious of one other part of the Valerie Plame case I just never hear discussed anywhere in the media.RUSH: A little while?CALLER: Colin Powell. Armitage has stated that the day after the Novak column, he did the right thing at that point and immediately notified his boss, Colin Powell, and say, "I'm the leaker."RUSH: That's true, that's true.CALLER: So you'd think the next thing...

RUSH: You know, ladies and gentlemen, it's often said that conservatives like me are sexists and have an objectifying view of women, that we see them as lesser in some way. Yet it seems to me it is always people who are not conservatives who have this attitude. I have an unbelievable audio sound bite. Recently Chris Matthews had on Erin Burnett, known on CNBC as the Street Sweetie. Now, we on this program aired a couple of audio sound bites from the Street Sweetie praising her journalistic...

RUSH: Let's go back to me, on this program last Friday, said this myself.RUSH ARCHIVE: Here you have a classic illustration. You have a problem, you know exactly what it is, you don't dare say it. Political correctness. If you say it, you're going to get a knock on the door from the Reverend Jackson and right behind at your back door will be the Reverend Sharpton. Nobody wants to put up with that, so the situation continues to fester, and at the end of the day you blame people like Ronald Reagan...

RUSH: Listen to this headline. "Clinton a Drag? Dems Fear Her Negatives." This is Ron Fournier in the Associated Press yesterday. "Looking past the presidential nomination fight, Democratic leaders quietly fret that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at the top of their 2008 ticket could hurt candidates at the bottom. They say the former first lady may be too polarizing for much of the country. She could jeopardize the party's standing with independent voters and give Republicans who otherwise might...

RUSH: President Bush and Karl Rove held a joint press conference today to announce Karl Rove's departure. This is the first of what we have three bites.THE PRESIDENT: Karl Rove is moving on down the road. I would call Karl Rove a dear friend. We've known each other as youngsters interested in serving our state and worked together so we could be in a position to serve this country, and so I thank my friend. I'll be on the road behind you here in a little bit. I thank Darby and I thank Karl...

RUSH: From the Nation magazine, one of these extreme far-left wacko publications by Alexander Cockburn; "How the Democrats Blew It in Only Eight Months." This is such a priceless bunch of whining and moaning about how the Democrats have blown it. We'll get into it. "Howard Dean Talks up Democrats' Voter Protection Effort." Included in this is the idea to give every Democrat a condom. Les Payne, who is black, writing in Newsday -- get this headline, Mr. Snerdley -- "Could Hillary Clinton also...

RUSH: In one of the biggest See, I Told You Sos that I have been able to recount on this program, for about two months, about three months I have been telling you and reminding you ever since that the dirty little secret is if the Democrats win the White House, they are not pulling out of Iraq. It ain't going to happen. They're not going to saddle themselves with defeat. They only want to try to do that to the president. So yesterday in the New York Times -- look at this -- "Democrats Say Leaving...

Rush's Morning Update: Pure PoliticsAugust 13, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Those of you who subscribe to the New York Times: Go to your birdcage and retrieve the August 12th article by reporters Jeff Zeleny and Marc Santora. For the rest of you, here’s the headline: “Democrats Say Leaving Iraq May Take Years.” The opening paragraph: “Even as they call for an end to the war and pledge to bring...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"When you start thinking, and you start applying actual analysis to feelings, it's the feelings that are going to get challenged.""Nobody in this country wants the US Military to lose. Nobody in this country wants the country to lose.""Hillary is coming off that moderate stance a bit. She's drifting more and more left.""The surge is working because of our military, and the reason the people think it's working is because it is, not...

RUSH: We gotta talk about the Hawkeye straw poll in Ames, Iowa. It was expected that Romney would win. Number two was Huckabee. Now, I mentioned this at the top of the program. It's a big deal for Huckabee, and I don't want to trivialize this -- the winner or whoever, or runner up or any of that, or Iowa. I don't want to trivialize this. It's just so early. It's six months until the first primary, 15 months 'til the actual election. Three of the four leading candidates didn't even participate....